Pioneering initiatives in Russia are gaining the
increased attention of animal rights groups working towards a more
humane world in which cruelty towards animals disappears altogether,
whether this be cruelty for fur, cruelty for meat or cruelty for
laboratory testing.

Among the initiatives which have called the
attention and garnered the support of animal rights groups and
defenders of humane treatment for animals is the adoption of
non-animal testing for cosmetics by Russian scientists. The leading
animal protection group Humane Society International (HSI) and the
Institute for In Vitro Sciences (IIVS) recently collaborated,
co-financing workshops for eleven Russian attendees in methods of
non-animal test methods in laboratories.